News

Every year mm1 consultants of the Consumer IoT Practice review and analyze the product presentations of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to form an overview about the development of the latest industry, technology and market trends. Below, we present an abstract of selected news and discoveries in the areas of Smart Home, AR/VR, Smart TV, Connected Car, Health and wearables.

As every year, various innovations, trends and products were presented at the international mobile tradefair, IFA 2018, in Berlin. Next to many improvements in the fields of Smart Home, Smart TVs, mobile devices and drones, this year‘s most prominent topic were voice assistants and their integration in many kinds of third-party devices.

Nearly all companies place new business at the very top of their priority list. The international VC study by mm1 in collaboration with the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management shows why new business is becoming increasingly more difficult, new business opportunities are systematically overestimated and what established companies need to do.

Speech by Marcel Kubon on September 5th, 2018 at 10:45 a.m. at the Licht # Digitalisierung [Light # Digitalization] forum in Ansberg regarding the issue of "Consumer IoT trends - what does the future hold for the smart home?"